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😀🚲Can you see Mt Hood while sweeping up the snow-response gravel on the curb-tight section of bikeway on Barbur Blvd at about 4:15 today <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/pdxBikes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pdxBikes</a>?Yes<a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/BikeLaneSweeper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BikeLaneSweeper</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/stroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stroads</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Portland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Portland</a>

😀🚲What measure are we using to decide that our <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/stroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stroads</a> need extra car lanes instead of <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/busLanes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#busLanes</a>/turn-only lanes? Here's 5pm on a Friday. <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/visionZero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#visionZero</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/pdxBikes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pdxBikes</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Portland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Portland</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Beaverton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Beaverton</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/bhHwy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bhHwy</a>

😀🚲What are the extra lanes on our <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/stroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stroads</a> for? Day-drinking sports car drivers, obvs.

😀🚲Sometimes this is a kinda quiet break from the <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/stroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stroads</a> noise but I'm inclined to just take the lane for that mile or so if I'm getting honked at on the side streets anyway.

enobacon2024-12-07.CrashCorner <a href="https://urbanists.video/videos/watch/595bd233-dc51-4fd6-bac1-c88667d716ba" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://urbanists.video/videos/watch/595bd233-dc51-4fd6-bac1-c88667d716ba</a>

😀🚲But the real idiots are the <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/trafficEngineers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trafficEngineers</a> counting these excess lanes as additional throughput when in reality they're the source of crashes and congestion. A quick <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/BusLanes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BusLanes</a> reconfiguration and traffic would flow better, turning would be easier, the bus would run on time, and finding that the bike lane suddenly ends or becomes unusable with debris and a clogged storm drain wouldn't be such a big deal. Half of car trips are less than 3 miles, many lead here. <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/InducedDemand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InducedDemand</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/stroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stroads</a>

😀🚲Dream big, like speed humps on <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/stroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stroads</a> 😂 seriously can't imagine any politician with that much vision let alone having the pull to do it in the next decade though.<a href="https://mastodon.social/@bryanculbertson/113328822306781773" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@bryanculbertson/113328822306781773</a>

Jace 🔥❤️‍🔥💖❤️A classic.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9BUyWVg1xI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9BUyWVg1xI</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/strongtowns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strongtowns</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/waroncars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#waroncars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stroads</a>

JdeB316 <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateSolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateSolutions</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Cities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cities</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Stroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stroads</a>Around now every one should know that the USA took a fatal turn in the Fifty's. They gave the car-industry carte blanche to fuck the whole country up. They designed the cities so that everybody had to drive. Mom and pop shops exchanged for massive grocery stores. Mixed housing became dead[ly] suburbs. All connected with stroads only fit for cars and speed. And now people complain about jammed up traffic. But it can be fixed, slowly but stedy and by using your brain instead of the gas pedal."How to Fix America's Worst Streets" [10:38 min] by City Beautiful<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V679pkDl6k" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V679pkDl6k</a> But it wont be fixed if you don't <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/VoteBlue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoteBlue</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/UpAndDownTheBallot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UpAndDownTheBallot</a>

😀🚲<a href="https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@breadandcircuses</a> if our system of <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/carSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#carSupremacy</a> met the actual needs of drivers, it would allow more convenient, easy, and dignified options than driving. The sprawling <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/stroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stroads</a> & <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/parking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#parking</a> lots "everybody drives" model only scales up to a certain point, and even then it is very fragile in the face of weather, construction, or sportsball games. The average speed of driving in most metro areas is barely competitive with <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/eBikes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eBikes</a> even before accounting for (heavily subsidized) cost to the driver.

😀🚲Sidewalk cafe`s on <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/stroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stroads</a>, lol ted's <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Portland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Portland</a>. No bike parking but two people on bikes leaving as we arrived and another arriving as we left.

😀🚲State Highway Dept employee sees cardboard cutout memorial to pedestrian who was killed in a crosswalk on their deadly <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/stroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stroads</a>:“[a staffer] was driving home,” Hamilton explained, “And it startled him. It was alarming.”“Another one [of the memorials] was on a sidewalk and it was facing right onto the street. That’s going to cause someone to stop. It can really cause confusion.”

😀🚲Is there a tool for mapping the range of trips-by-bike where you can compare the range limits imposed by avoiding high-stress intersections like <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/stroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stroads</a>? e.g. where can I get to in 15min at level-of-traffic-stress threshold of 5 vs 2? Like if you're planning a bike trip with your kids vs on your e-bike alone, but for whacking elected officials over the head with during public meetings <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/BikeTooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BikeTooter</a>?

😀🚲<a href="https://mstdn.ca/@ned" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ned</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@kim_harding</a> I think "at the scale of the urban region" is the perspective that e-bikes really unlock, which more planners, <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/trafficEngineers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trafficEngineers</a>, and elected/appointed officials need to understand in terms of <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/InducedDemand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InducedDemand</a>. Many people can easily walk around their neighborhoods without encountering the systemic safety /psychological barrier of <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/stroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stroads</a> fencing you in, and it's on 3-5mile trips by bike where you realize cars aren't moving appreciably faster: <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/SeeYouAtTheNextLight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SeeYouAtTheNextLight</a> over & over.

😀🚲Which, if we re-purpose the outside lanes of all four-lane <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/stroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stroads</a>, as bus/turn-only lanes along a painted bike lane, the traffic is much calmer, you can photo-enforce with cameras already on the bus, you can ride pretty fast even in a velomobile and maybe never have a bus pass you, would need some floating bus stops to avoid that stop conflict. We could gradually get rid of stops too, eventually fully separated bikeway in some places, actually complete low-stress bike network in the meantime.

😀🚲I'm not saying everybody is going to ride 30mph down Barbur on any kind of protected infrastructure, but it definitely better be wider than 6ft between curbs, and if bikes aren't allowed to do 30 then why is the car lane posted so high? The infrastructure needs to adjust on both sides but we need e-bikes to be competitive with driving in terms of time and also comfort. Maybe velomobile/scooter as a design vehicle is the thing we need to aim for in this moment though, in recovering <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/stroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stroads</a>.

😀🚲<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@haraldkliems" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@haraldkliems</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@TheWarOnCars" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@TheWarOnCars</a> Oregon leg. voted but it's currently just a planning activity & we're maintaining the deadly status quo throughout the process. Reluctance to make <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/busLanes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#busLanes</a>/turn-only the existing curb lanes of all four-lane <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/stroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stroads</a> (including ones <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/PBOT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PBOT</a> fully controls) is the actual hold-up. Cowardly leaders + traffic Engineers afraid to actually change, even though adopted <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/VisionZero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VisionZero</a> and <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateAction</a> plans purport to value safety and mobility over car speed and volume counts.

😀🚲WTF with this <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/transportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transportation</a> bureau, wait for the state to give you control over <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/SE82nd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SE82nd</a> and then do literally nothing to make it safe for a decade. The plan can't be for bike lanes on parallel streets if they don't cross the damn freeway. <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Portland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Portland</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/pdxBikes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pdxBikes</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/InducedDemand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InducedDemand</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/ClimateDenial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateDenial</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/stroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stroads</a><a href="https://www.portland.gov/transportation/planning/82nd-avenue/documents/82nd-avenue-center-district-bike-network-map" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.portland.gov/transportation/planning/82nd-avenue/documents/82nd-avenue-center-district-bike-network-map</a>

😀🚲This poor sidewalk on <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/BarburBlvd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BarburBlvd</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/BikeLaneSweeper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BikeLaneSweeper</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/ODOTGTFOpdx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ODOTGTFOpdx</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/stroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stroads</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/pdxBikes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pdxBikes</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/@bikeloudpdx" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bikeloudpdx</a>

😀🚲but how are you going to carry a whole family's groceries home in the rain without using the motor if you don't have time to go to the gym todayorIDK about all y'all but I came here to drink beer, do laundry, and decommission <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/stroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stroads</a>, and I'm fresh out of laundry to do right now.(is the poll I would post if mastodon could do that with pictures)

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